I really enjoyed Temptation’s Wings and Far From Reality – thanks for the recs!
Here’s my latest batch of recommendations. This has been a really impressive month, and there are still a bunch more I haven’t fully listened to yet.
Lunar Shadow – Far From Light (heavy)
Wormwood – Ghostlands: Wounds From a Bleeding Earth (black)
Fit for an Autopsy – The Great Collapse (deathcore)
Cellador – Off the Grid (power)
My Sleeping Karma – Mela Ananda Live (psychedelic instru-metal)
Demonic Resurrection – Dashavatar (Indian folk melodeath)
Only comment on the album so far is that I don’t like the released tracks, and I don’t pirate music (unless a leak is streaming on youtube or something), so I haven’t heard the rest yet.
Thanks for the rec! Asheville’s several hours west, so I don’t dig into their metal scene so much, but this is fab :-D
Have you come across Tengger Cavalry yet? Cuz you need to. Mofuckin Mongolian Metal complete with throat singing!
edit: according to Discourse-Search, no one has mentioned Tengger Cavalry in this thread so far, so consider that recommendation expanded to all of you, dammit!
Anthrax just left the stage after about 90 minutes of some damn fine metal here in Grand Rapids. They may be old but they haven’t lost a step. A good chunk of it was downright thrash-level hardcore, and they looked like guys having a great time up there.
I am going to this same tour on Tuesday night with a few friends and we’re pumped as fuck for this :-D Spent most of the workday Friday sending each other Anthrax music video-based puns :)
First two are Devil Wears Prada, who are still the most generic sort of metalcore imaginable, next five are Killswitch Engage, who I’ve finally come to accept as “Soilwork, but worse,” and then the end of the album is pure Anthrax. I managed about 3rd row back from the stage most of the night, and have the bruises to prove it :-D
My buddy Marisol is an oldschool metalhead who used to go to thrash shows in the late 80s/early 90s all the time, so this was a big trip down memory lane for her. Watching her gettin’ fighty in the pit was kinda hilarious, since she’s all of about 5’1" and 90lbs soaking wet, but damn if she didn’t hold her own.
The whole crew I was with had an amazing night, and Anthrax put on an absurdly good fucking show. Closing out with “Indians” was epic as shit, and they hit most of the high points of the new album (“Blood Eagle Wings,” “Evil Twin,” and “Breathing Lightning”) while still mixing in tons of classics from Among the Living and other older albums. We all missed “I’m the Man,” but hearing shit like “Madhouse” and “I Am the Law” live was just incredible :-D
Joey Belladonna is a charismatic motherfucker to be sure, but really, the whole band were thoroughly on point the entire night.
Good stuff, sounds very much like my experience with the tour. Except I’m a wuss and stayed out of the pit. :) Judging from the pictures it looks like your venue was quite a bit smaller, at least in terms of the stage real estate. I kinda wish mine had been, too, always liked the more intimate shows. Not that 20 Monroe Live was bad at all, much better than setting up in the stadium next door.
Yeah, it was sick as hell; the Ritz is only a 2000-person club. Bigger than the tiny joints I normally stalk, but great for this particular show (it’s where Ghost played late last year, too). Being so close to the action was fabulous. . . but not quite as close as the Octopus Project where at Local 506 this weekend, where one band member could hold her theremin out to the crowd to play. . .
Supremely excited for the new Decapitated album coming out in a couple months. There’s even a brand new video to help whet my appetite until the album drops.
You’ll have to click this link to see the vid, I’d rather not embed it because there’s a couple gross parts involving spikes being driven through clenched hands (dumb metal videos), and I don’t know which part of the video will be thumb-nailed… no pun intended.
I’ve probably talked about Decapitated around here before, but they’re easily one of my favorite discoveries in the last few years. And though I’m not as much a fan of the back catalog (different style, different vocalist too), I’ve considered all their latest album to be guaranteed day-one purchases the millisecond they’ve been available.
If you enjoy groove oriented technical death metal, give them a shot. I discovered them when they opened for Meshuggah a few tours back, and pretty happy I did.
Here’s a more couple tracks I particularly like from other recent albums.
